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Adamantine Arrow Sourcebook p. 63-66
Preq's Status ● (Adamantine Arrow)
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Oaths

Your character can make a vow so powerful that it has supernatural consequences. She makes the vow more important than herself, down to her most trivial or powerful personal desires. Her oaths influence all of her thoughts and actions. Some Arrows discover inner peace in service, but most battle with their vows.

This Merit does not represent a specific oath. Instead, this Merit measures the mage’s psychic capacity for keeping oaths. Arrows train to increase this by meditating, practicing ascetic discipline and the studying the order’s secret philosophical texts. Each dot in the Merit provides the capacity to retain (or “bind”) one point’s worth of oaths. The Arrow can fill some or all of her capacity with one especially intense oath or a number of minor ones, as long as their point values don’t exceed her total Oathbound Merit dots.

Calculate the cost of the oath by adding its binding strength to the listed additional costs. Oaths have an effect based on their binding strength alone; do not count additional costs.

Drawbacks: If the character binds an oath during the chronicle, doing so requires one point of Mana (regardless of the oath’s point total) and 16 hours of secluded, uninterrupted study and meditation. A new character can fill her capacity at no cost, but doesn’t have to. In the latter case, the mage is assumed to have bound these oaths before play began.

Bound oaths are public matters. Order mages do make secret vows from time to time, but they aren’t covered by this Merit. The Arrow has 24 hours after taking the oath to tell others about it. The Arrow cannot ask or imply that witnesses should keep the oath a secret. If the Arrow doesn’t meet these conditions, the oath doesn’t bind to her soul, and she loses it.

Losing an Oath

Arrows lose bound oaths in one of three ways: completion, rejection or violation.

Types of Oaths


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Character TypeMage  +
Merit Dots1  +, 2  +, 3  +, 4  +, and 5  +
Merit TypePower  +
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ParentAdamantine Arrow Sourcebook  +, and Adamantine Arrow  +
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SourceAdamantine Arrow Sourcebook  +
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